Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse

Wight Healthcare; Fareham; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Wight Healthcare in Hampshire invites a Registered Nurse to join the Tissue Viability Team, based at Fort Southwick or St Marys Community Health Campus, covering Portsmouth and Southeast Hampshire. The role supports clinical practice with teaching and specialist advice on tissue viability, and will develop a culture of service improvement.

Travel within Hampshire may be required to support service delivery or attend meetings; we provide complex wound assessment, leg ulcer service, telephone

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with NMC registration.

Responsibilities

• Provide teaching, information and specialist advice on tissue viability.
• Support patients and families to achieve improved health outcomes.
• Deliver complex wound assessment and advice.
• Offer leg ulcer service including lower limb assessment.
• Provide telephone advice, training and education, supervision and competency review.
• Participate in link nurse meetings and training.

Education

Registered Nurse (NMC)

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Registered Nurse to join the Hampshire Tissue Viability Team.

Our mission is to provide an open and honest, holistic, collaborative, specialist tissue viability service that facilitates the highest quality, evidence-based care, which keeps our patients at the heart of everything we do.

You will be based at either Fort Southwick (PO17 6AR) or St Marys Community Health Campus (PO3 6AD), covering the Portsmouth and Southeast Hampshire area. There may be occasions where you are asked to travel further within Hampshire to support service delivery or attend meetings.

Our role is to support health care professionals in clinical practice by providing teaching, information and specialist advice on tissue viability.

We provide:

• Complex wound assessment and advice
• Leg ulcer service, including lower limb assessment
• Telephone advice
• Training and education
• Supervision and competency review
• Link nurse meeting and training

The successful candidate will support patients and their families to achieve improved health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing, while demonstrating care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment.

Care is based on comprehensive assessments and is patient/client centred, culturally sensitive, evidence-based and promotes independence.

The role will develop and maintain a culture of service improvement which promotes quality, safety and striving to do better.